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"I'm eager to work with all of you," he said during his hour-long speech. "But America does not stand still—and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do."

He touched upon issues of American foreign policy efforts in relation to Syria and Iran, but focused much of his speech on economic issues, like the gap between the rich and poor in our country. "Those at the top have never done better," he said. "But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened...so our job is to reverse these trends."

He didn't dwell only on the negatives;he also spent time talking about the recently instituted Affordable Care Act by citing examples of people who havereceived the care they needed because of the new healthcare plan. "A pre-existing condition used to mean that someone like Amanda Shelley, a physician assistant and single mom from Arizona, couldn't get health insurance. But on January 1, she got covered," he said during his speech."On January 3, she felt a sharp pain. On January 6, she had emergency surgery. Just one week earlier, Amanda said, that surgery would've meant bankruptcy."